Wednesday, August 6, 2008

New glass panel--Day 4, cutting the border

Another great tool that I'm so lucky to own is a strip cutter.

Its a glass cutter with a ruler and a base combined together. The cutter can be set to increments on the ruler depending on the width of glass desired. The base rides on a surface higher than my cutting surface and scores the glass in a nice even line.

Then the glass pieces are broke apart from each other. Next, I'll need to fit the border pieces to the original design. I've chosen to have a 1" border in the same pale green color that is in the body of the panel but in a different texture. The border texture is called rough rolled and it is translucent with a slightly rippled texture. For the corners I've decided to use 1" square clear glass bevels.

In the next few days I'll go to the next step in this project--foiling the glass pieces.

About Me

Thanks so much for checking out my blog. I'm a full time stained glass artisan so I will be posting different items that I'm working on. I work from my home studio in West Tennessee close to the Tennessee River in Perryville. My husband and I share our home with 9 rescued kitties--maybe its the other way around and they are all letting us stay here.